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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Scrappy Saturday - Brown

It's brown month for the RSC'ers.I don't love brown (it's just so dark and colourless!) but we are learning to get along. I must admit that I like brown quite a bit more when I call it chocolate brown! Here are the brown Alamo star blocks I have sewn so far this month as leader/enders. Their job will be to help the other blocks to sparkle in the finished quilt :)

I've also finished 4 brown blocks for the Omigosh collection.I have more than half of the double nine patch blocks finished now. That means about 1/4 of the piecing is done on this quilt - now that's progress.Here's the pile of the blocks that live in my fridge, where they can stay nice and fresh for years!To see what the RSC'ers are up to with their brown scraps, hop over to SoScrappy's link up.

22 comments:

Thinking about those beautiful blocks in your fridge is just too funny. Whatever works! Great progress on both projects. The brown Alamos would be rather bland if they were all alone, but I am sure with their bright and happy friends they will add depth and contrast.

You should read what Katie Pasquini Masopust has to say about brown. To her "brown" is a good neutral and should be used in at least 7 different shades and tints. That is one thing that I took away from the course I took with her last winter. I never liked brown either, but I now have a new respect for the many ways it can be effectively used.

I like to make little 9-patches too and have been admiring yours. I'm thinking of ordering the Omigosh pattern now. I have been trying so hard not to buy patterns but this looks like something I'd really make. Thanks for enabling me! villacrestfarm@gmail.com

I love your Omigosh nine-patches. I made my Omigosh in 2007 and still love it. My least favourite part was the 440(?) tiny square-in-a-squares. My family was away for a weekend, and I decided that I would use that time to tackle them and get them done!

I had forgotten that you used an old fridge for storage--love it.Your Alamo Stars look very Fall-ish. And I will have to think of brown in terms of chocolate from now on. I like the dark varieties! : )

Oh I just had to have a peek in your fridge Kathy, haha! I'd say you're making great progress - and I love your brown blocks, especially those gorgeous 9 patches. (Brown is just all the colours I love mixed together, so how could I not love it too?!).

I love all your little blocks. When I think of your fridge with all your neatly stored wonderful blocks, I smile because they are all so wonderful. Like you, I want to join so many of those same quilt alongs and sew alongs but have had to say no until I finish up projects I've planned for a long time, many started, WIP, UFO. So many quilts and not enough time.